Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Hawaiian Printing, sentence 9

“When a brother of the Queen’s, whose name I do not remember—but who was usually called by the white people John Adams—wished me to teach him to read, Davis would not permit me, observing, ‘They will soon know more than ourselves.’”

Who acts: Boyd, white people, Davis, brother · What happens: not remember, call, wish, teach, read, not permit · To what, where: name, Boyd, more · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, First Hawaiian Printing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Boyd, white people, Davis, brother), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 When	punct
2	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 brother	det
4	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 When	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 Queen	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Queen	det
7	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 brother	appos
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 Queen	case
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 name	punct
10	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	11 name	nmod:poss
11	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 brother	conj
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 remember	nsubj
13	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 remember	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 remember	advmod
15	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 name	acl:relcl
16	—	-	PUNCT	_	21 called	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 called	cc
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 called	nsubj:pass
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 called	aux:pass
20	usually	usually	ADV	_	21 called	advmod
21	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 remember	parataxis
22	by	by	ADP	_	25 people	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 people	det
24	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 people	amod
25	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 called	obl
26	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Adams	compound
27	Adams	adam	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 people	conj
28	—	-	PUNCT	_	29 wished	punct
29	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 called	conj
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 wished	obj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 teach	mark
32	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 wished	advcl
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 teach	obj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 read	mark
35	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 teach	xcomp
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 permit	punct
37	Davis	Davis	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 permit	nsubj
38	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 permit	aux
39	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	40 permit	advmod
40	permit	permit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 wished	parataxis
41	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 permit	obj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 observing	punct
43	observing	observe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	40 permit	advcl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 know	punct
45	‘	‘	SCONJ	_	49 know	mark
46	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 know	nsubj
47	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 know	aux
48	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	49 know	advmod
49	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 wished	parataxis
50	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	49 know	obj
51	than	than	ADP	_	52 ourselves	case
52	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	50 more	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	49 know	punct
54	’	'	PUNCT	_	49 know	punct
55	”	"	PUNCT	_	15 remember	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not remember in a quote	present · do-support	Boyd	a brother and a brother and name's name's name not said here			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent name=Theme
2	call in a quote	past · passive	the white people and John Adams			who nsubj:pass; usually property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient
3	wish in a quote	past	the white people and John Adams not said here	Boyd			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot i=Theme
4	teach speech: other in a quote	to-infinitive	the white people and John Adams not said here		Boyd		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	read in a quote	to-infinitive	the white people and John Adams not said here				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	not permit in a quote	would	Davis	Boyd			vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
7	observe in a quote	gerund	Davis not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
8	know in a quote	future	brother	more than ourselves		soon property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus
10	name in a quote		a brother and a brother and name's name				nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66357 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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🌲 Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Hawaiian Printing, sentence 9

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Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Hawaiian Printing, sentence 9